How JohnnyMiller started their logo design journey

Company name

Overview

We provide members of online communities the ability to make money by displaying and ranking their favorite advertisements. We are a hip fast growing company with a team devoted to helping people.

All of the money our members make helps others- they donate or pledge their money to their favorite charities. We are helping money go from the advertiser to our members to the charities. We are looking for some type of movement in the logo or feeling of exchanging. Please don't use a dollar or euro symbol.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

We are aiming at 18-35 year old men and women who spend an hour every day checking their profile page on Facebook and MySpace, Twitter and the iPhone. They may live in any country and be any nationality. They are primarily in the USA to start with. They tend to be educated, fun, light hearted, and interested in donating their time to help others. They are passionate and opinionated. These people speak up and tell others how they feel. They exchange their ideas with others. They are not shy.

The logo would look
• Innovative like Apple
• Professional yet hip
• Action/ Movement
• Trust/Respect but not old
• Sharing and giving but not a charity

Requirements

the logo needs to fit in the space where the thumbs up icon and the word "like" and "become a fan" are located. please make sure the logo fits here and is completely legible

We need the logo to say just three words-
powered by manumatix
an actual icon can be added to create movement or a feeling of exchanging
The complete logo with icon must look amazing even though it is only 16 pixels in height. This is the most important part- it must hold up small- the only time it will be larger is on our website- every other time it appears on the internet it will be TINY!
We are the fine print basically and we want to stand out but not clash.

When you post your design please make sure you show at least one example at 16 pixels in height.

Please keep the color palette to 2-3 colors
the colors need to be neutral enough to be placed below hundreds of different colored advertisements and look complementary as opposed to clashing.